Still looking for that last minute gift for dad? I’ve got a few suggestions for the tech savvy dad on-the-go. We have all these gadgets and more on our Gadget for the Guru section. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKtEbFzmEmI&list=UU7bzyiijcVHA8JwuIL15mxQ&feature=share[/youtube] Portable power – for the dad with the mobile devices, portable power is a must have. Some of the devices … Read more
Local high school robotics teams let Phoenix Comicon goers sneak a peak at their battle-ready robot creations throughout the weekend. These teams get to build, design and battle their robots in local and national competitions. The students are associated with the program FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) which inspires student interest in science and … Read more
The Center for Entrepreneurial Innovation (CEI) is holding their annual Ready Set Launch! summer entrepreneurial experience from June 23-27, which brings together high school juniors and seniors from all over the Valley to learn about entrepreneurship as a viable career option. From conception to pitch, students form groups and take a hands-on approach to develop … Read more
Organizing a big group of students traveling domestically or abroad can be difficult and may end up being a logistical nightmare, but with startup EXP Trips, users now have a simplified, mainstreamed, and technological method of planning a trip to their desired foreign destination. Founder of EXP Trips, Jake Pfeiffer, realized that there was an … Read more
Have you had trouble accessing sites like Feedly and Evernote? Well, you can thank an annoying onslaught of DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks for that. Not to be confused with a hacking attempt, DDoS attacks, simply put, are when a wide-range group of attackers flood servers of a targeted website with so much traffic that legitimate … Read more
The Hacktivist group Anonymous launched its latest attack against sponsors of the FIFA World Cup 2014 as well as the Government of Brazil to protest the lavish spending of the event and treatment of local World Cup protesters. To date they have engaged in a DDoS attack against the World Cup site and sponsors such as … Read more
Hacking has become the world’s current pain-in-the-neck, with recent attacks on Target, eBay, and WordPress – to name a few. Companies are doing their best to combat hackers and secure their customer’s private information, but in a world of intellectual cyberpunks it is becoming easier for them to attack-and this time the little blue bird … Read more
TASER International announced that Bret Taylor, the co-creator of Google Maps, CEO of Friendfeed, CTO of Facebook, and is now CEO of Quip, will be joining its Board of Directors. He brings extensive technology experience to the Company as TASER and its business unit EVIDENCE.com looks to accelerate growth in the wearable camera and cloud … Read more
Parents may worry that today’s tech is robbing their children’s attention span, but Mesa’s champion Westwood Robotics high school team knows how tech can be used to enrich a kid’s life: just build wicked awesome robots with your friends. At the 2014 Phoenix Comicon convention in downtown Phoenix, the team presented “How Robots are Taking Over High … Read more
Scottsdale’s GoDaddy, the domain name and web hosting company that has helped numerous small businesses and distributed 57 million domain names, has submitted a registration statement proposing a $100 million initial public offering (IPO) of its stock. The company announced that it filed the registration statement with the United States Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) Monday, … Read more